He and Caroline return home, unable to forgive themselves for not putting an end to what they see as a clearly unsuitable marriage. Herriton, Lilia's strait-laced mother-in-law, dispatches her own son Philip ( Rupert Graves) to Italy to persuade her to return home, but by the time he arrives Lilia and Gino have wed. Appalled by her behaviour and concerned about Lilia's future, Mrs.

There she falls in love with both the countryside and Gino Carella, a handsome young villager, and she decides to stay.

Recently widowed and anxious to escape the clutches of her oppressively meddlesome in-laws, free-spirited Lilia Herriton, née Theobald ( Helen Mirren) travels to the hillside Tuscan town of Monteriano with her young friend Caroline Abbott ( Helena Bonham Carter), under the guise of being her chaperone, whilst leaving her young daughter in the care of her grandparents. The screenplay by Sturridge, Tim Sullivan, and Derek Granger is based on the 1905 novel of the same name by E. Where Angels Fear to Tread is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, in which familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry.Where Angels Fear to Tread is a 1991 British drama film directed by Charles Sturridge and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Giovanni Guidelli, Barbara Jefford, and Helen Mirren. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. But that Lilia should have had a baby - and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! - are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world.'

He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. 'Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow.

Em forster where angels fear to tread